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42 produkter
Double Indemnity
Häftad, 2005
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
142 kr
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A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES'Cain is the master' Tom WolfeDOUBLE INDEMNITY is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by …
Cocktail Waitress
Häftad, 2013
109 kr
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Following her husband's death in an accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her …
Postman Always Rings Twice
The classic crime novel and major movie
Häftad, 2005
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
144 kr
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'One of the great crime novels of all time' Tony Parsons, Express'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe'It is no accident that movies based on three [of Cain's novels] helped to define the genre known as film noir' NEW YORK …
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories: Introduction by Robert Polito
Inbunden, 2003
461 kr
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Three by Cain
Serenade, Love''s Lovely Counterfeit, The Butterfly
E-bok, 2011
173 kr
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All three books are written with an enduring view of the dark corners of the American psyche. Cain hammered high art out of the crude matter of betrayal, bloodshed, and perversity. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Enchanted Isle
E-bok, 2024
197 kr
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While searching for her real father, a runaway stumbles into a deadly mess in this gritty noir novel by the author of The Postman Always Rings Twice.With just seventy-four bucks in her pocket, Mandy packs her things and buys the bus ticket that will get her away from the stepfather who''s been …
Serenade
Häftad, 2011
132 kr
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'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEWSerenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, …
Mildred Pierce
E-bok, 2010
208 kr
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Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a …
Postman Always Rings Twice
E-bok, 2010
225 kr
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An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The …
Double Indemnity
E-bok, 2011
208 kr
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Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir .
Mildred Pierce
Häftad, 2008
144 kr
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'Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed' LA TIMES'Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime writing at its very best' MY …
Postman Always Rings Twice
The classic crime novel and major movie
E-bok, 2010
74 kr
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''One of the great crime novels of all time'' Tony Parsons, Express ''Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler'' Tom Wolfe ''It is no accident that movies based on three [of Cain''s novels] helped to define the genre known as film noir'' …
Double Indemnity
E-bok, 2010
74 kr
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A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie ''DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style'' LA TIMES ''Cain is the master'' Tom Wolfe DOUBLE INDEMNITY is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man …
Mildred Pierce
E-bok, 2010
44 kr
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''Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed'' LA TIMES ''Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime writing at its very best'' MY WEEKLY …
Serenade
E-bok, 2010
62 kr
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''Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people'' SATURDAY REVIEW Serenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, …
Mildred Pierce
Ljudbok, 2006
328 kr
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Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to a …
Cloud Nine
E-bok, 2024
176 kr
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A twisted tale of heinous crimes and hidden motives by the legendary author of Double Indemnity.Graham meets Sonya outside of his real estate office. She is sixteen, beautiful, and drops a bombshell—she''s there because Graham''s half-brother, Burl, raped her, leaving her frightened, pregnant, and …
Galatea
E-bok, 2024
197 kr
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A down-on-his-luck boxing trainer finds a woman worth fighting for in this "assured" novel by an MWA Grand Master Award winner (Kirkus Reviews).It took some doing, but Duke Webster is out of prison. Val Valenty arranged the parole, and now the onetime prizefighter and boxing coach is his puppet, …
Institute
E-bok, 2024
197 kr
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An academic looking for money finds a seductive woman—and trouble—in this suspenseful tale by the Edgar Award–winning crime writer.Professor Lloyd Palmer loves a good biography. His fantasy is to start an institute to teach young scholars the biographical arts, and it will take old money to make …
Jealous Woman
E-bok, 2024
197 kr
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An ambitious Reno salesman. A wealthy would-be divorcée. An insurance policy. It''s a toxic combination in this noir thriller by an MWA Grand Master . . .If Las Vegas is a city of lovers, in Reno, the business is divorce. Six weeks in Reno can erase the darkest marriages, and the only question is …
